Rare baroque salon furniture in cylinder form height: 189 cm. Diameter: 83 cm. Italy, Piedmont, around 1700. ...

Rare baroque salon furniture in cylinder form height: 189 cm. Diameter: 83 cm. Italy, Piedmont, around 1700. Probably made as a collector's item or music cabinet, in predominantly solid walnut (extremely complex restoration with 400 working hours), see report in Weltkunst, 2012).
Probably made as a collector's item or music cabinet, in solid partially veneered walnut, the lower part decorated with band inlays. The superstructure in three parts, the base a four-legged, cup-shaped pedestal, widening to a dome-like shape at the top, on four feet, in the form of squashed volutes supporting a four-sided, multi-cranked base pedestal. The central superstructure is cylindrical, divided into four parts by pilaster strips that rise up from the coved cornice. The pilaster strips are decorated with fully carved flowers and foliage in the form of hanging flowers on carved cartouches with baroque palmettes and rosettes. The four segmental faces of the barrel-shaped wall are set with cassette frames. Curved cartouche framings with volutes, hanging leaves and central cross leaf. Above, an architrave, V-shaped veneered in walnut, with projecting finial cranked on four sides, surmounted by carved vases and soaring braces with volutes and openwork carved Baroque palmettes. The interior without fixtures. The original iron lock is preserved, key available. This object has been checked at the Art Loss Register database and is not registered there as stolen or missing.

Provenance: Claudia and Markus Schmidt-Felderhoff, Bamberg (the cabinet was extensively restored in long and elaborate work, about 400 hours (See article Weltkunst No. 61, July 2012, p. 52. - Hampel, Munich, Sept. 20, 2012, lot 87. - North German private collection.